The world markets collapsed this Thursday, with the S&P 500 lowering almost 5%, while the US dollar and oil prices also collapsed, collapsed, since the duty US commercial Donald Trump they led investors to seek refuge assets such as bonds and yen.
The greatest impact is reflected in the technological indicator Nasdaqwho lost 6% before the collapse of the actions of the calls “Seven magnificent”. He S&P 500 He retreated 4.8% and the industrial Dow Jonesa 4%.
“The market is currently debate between the possibility of a strong start of the year correction as we are currently seeing or an additional movement of negativity that could lead to the North American Équity to a ´Bear Market´ on purpose, with very negative consequences also for the global Échy. It seems that the scenario begins to skew towards a potential ´Bear Market´, said Germán Fermo, Global Markets Strategy of Grupo IEB.
For its part, the euro went up 1.4% against the dollar. Forehead to Japanese, The dollar weakened 1.3%, at 146.01 yen.
In the currency market, “the US dollar went down and touched its lowest level since Trump arrived at the White House,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya. This Thursday morning, the green ticket was at its minimum level since October, falling 0.85%, to $ 1,0986 for one euro.
The actions related to technology were the ones that fell the most. Apple lost 9.3%, affected by tariffs to China, base of much of its manufacture. Amazon.com gave 9%, Microsoft 2.4%and NVIDIA 7.8%.
Landslides in Asia and Europe’s bags
The MSCI indicator of values around the world fell 3.7%, to 812.43. In Europe, the 27 EU countries now face a 20%reciprocal rate. The Stoxx 600 paneurpeo index declined 2.7%.
European stock markets fell to more 3% as follows: Paris Stock Exchange lost 3.3%; Frankfurt 3.1%; that of Milan 3.6%; and that of Madrid 1%. Zurich markets (-2.3%), and London (-1.6%) also presented descents.
Trump’s taxes affected Asia with special hardness. China was hit by a 34%reciprocal tariff, 24%Japan, South Korea of 25%and 46%Vietnam. Vietnamese actions collapsed 6.7% and the Nikkei 225 index fell 2.8%. In addition, the Bag of Shenzen lost 1.4%, Hong Kong 1.7%. Instead, Shanghai only yielded 0.2% and the square of Seoul 0.8%.
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The demand for state bonds that provide a guaranteed income made the yields of the US treasure debt fall. The 10 -year American bond performance dropped 17.8 basic points, to 4,017%, from 4,195% on Wednesday.
The yields of the public debt of the euro zone ceded, with the yield of Germany to 10 years, the reference of the euro zone, losing 7.5 basic points to 2.65%, after reaching 2,625%, its minimum since March 4.
Commodities sink up to 7.1%
The prices of Petroleum subtracted almost 7%, with the American oil lowering 7.1% to $ 66.62 a barrel and the Brent descending 6.8% to $ 69.84 a barrel.
The gold reached a historical maximum above $ 3,200 on Wednesday before losing bellows and a 1.5% to $ 3,114,14 an ounce.
What did Donald Trump announce?
From the White House, the US president exhibited a graph with the new differentiated rates: 34% for imports from China, 20% for the European Union, 25% for South Korea, 24% for Japan, 32% for Taiwan, 10% for Argentina, among others.
“Our country has been looted, caught, raped, sheared,” The president argued with a combative tone, by justifying the decision as a response to decades of commercial imbalances.
The Republican invoked the 1977 International Emergency Powers Law to activate the new tariffs, in an attempt to force their main commercial partners to lower their own barriers. According to the US government, the commercial deficit accumulated in 2024 exceeded 1.2 billion dollars.
Trump said the tariffs – to those who called “reciprocal” – will allow the return of manufacturing jobs to the country and will end what described as a “scam” of more than half a century for taxpayers. However, economists warn that the general increase in tariffs could lead to a price increase in consumer goods such as cars, clothing and electronics, affecting both homes and companies.
The decision marks one of the most aggressive commercial actions of the last decades and could trigger reprisals by other economies.
Source: Ambito
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